boot banner project

[Scott Long]

Toxa wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:44:04AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> 
>>HP-UX boxes too, and I have to say, it's a lot easier to tell what is 
>>going on than our current ascii-spray we have now.   I've even had 
>>people ask if my machine just crashed when they see it boot.
>>
>>This could easily be an rc.conf option I'm sure..
>>
>>Eric
> 
> 
> As I've told before, I personally strictly dislike idea to add something
> till then it's really necessary and desirable.  In my humble opinion,
> polishing representaton of a boot process is generally bad idea. It
> brings nothing useful into boot process, adds more code into system (We
> all don't want freebsd to be bloated, do we?), and don't makes such users as
> you described above more clever.
> 

Are you the gatekeeper for the 'necessary and desirable' standard?  I'd
prefer to keep the debate technical and see what can be produced rather
than inject personal opinion as if it represents everyone.

Scott